Sam McMillan has written his intriguing autobiography from his childhood throughout his life. Finding the Thread: My Life as I Remember and Disremember It is his account of his struggles, acceptance, successes, and grateful happiness in dealing with his sexual identity and his alcoholism.
Over the years, researchers have reported solubility data in the chemical, pharmaceutical, engineering, and environmental literature for several thousand organic compounds. Until the first publication of the Handbook of Aqueous Solubility Data, this information had been scattered throughout numerous sources. Now newly revised, the second edition of this landmark volume continues the tradition of providing an extensive compilation of published aqueous solubility data for a wide variety of organic nonelectrolytes and unionized weak electrolytes. Adds data on 500 more organic compoundsThis latest edition adds 2000 new solubility values, bringing the total count to over 18,000 data points. Almost 500 organic compounds have been added, increasing the total number to 4661. This volume includes data for pharmaceuticals, pollutants, nutrients, herbicides, and pesticides as well as agricultural, industrial, and energy-related compounds.The same convenient formatEach compound is identified by a sequential number along with molecular formula, compound name, synonyms, molecular weight, Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number, melting point, and boiling point if available. Each entry has a five-point evaluation score for the quality of the reporting of the data, along with the full citation, and comments from the authors when necessary. The user-friendly format gives a clear depiction of each piece of solubility data with enough information to estimate its validity. The Handbook of Aqueous Solubility Data gives scientists in a broad range of fields a portable, accessible resource for solubility data of numerous compounds and a single system for the evaluation of the data supplied.
Originally taught mainly in business schools, supply chain management has become a common elective and graduate course in engineering colleges. The increasing demand for engineers with supply chain knowledge has fed this shift. However, supply chain management textbooks that have a reasonable coverage of quantitative analysis techniques are few and far between. Concise, straightforward, and easy-to-read, Supply Chain Management for Engineers uses practical problems to introduce key concepts and cultivate students’ problem-solving skills. Helping students hone their analytical skills and develop the ability to solve real-world problems, the book: Includes a simulation game for practicing supply chain management skillsCovers the use of practical software tools including Gurobi Optimizer and Microsoft EXCELFacilitates the use of problem-based learning (PBL) pedagogy Provides a theoretical framework for supply chain design and supplier selection Focusing on quantitative aspects, this book uses example problems to introduce key concepts and case studies to strengthen students’ analysis and synthesis skills. In addition to exercises, this book also provides several problems that are relatively complicated and can be used as mini projects that link theoretical concepts to practical problem solving. It also presents a simulation game where students can play the roles of suppliers, OEMs, and retailers within a supply chain environment to practice the skills they acquire. It also stresses the importance of integrating engineering optimization techniques with business strategic thinking. These features and more give students the supply chain knowledge and problem-solving skills increasingly required for engineers entering the work force.
Do our modern chronic health issues have a cause we can control? You bet they do. This is the first fiction novel designed to be a mythology that can strengthen your will to resist what is killing you. Have you ever wondered why our chronic illness is so pervasive? Answer: everything is working according to plan, almost. The conspiracy is revealed. All of humanity is a carefully planned resource project. The advanced race of Provenger introduce agriculture to our hunter-gatherer ancestors with the intent of returning thousands of years later to harvest the population it makes possible. The staff of life becomes the club of death in this dystopian tale that reveals their plan to biologically control the development of the human race. They have designed wheat to have very specific effects. They want their victims to populate the planet while slowing their technological advancement. Their prey will be numerous, plump, and harmless; the dream of any carnivore. They do their job too well and things go horribly wrong. When they return they encounter multitudes that are sick, obese, and poisoning themselves with ineffective drugs in an attempt to heal from chronic disease caused by their modern diet. Sound familiar? Flesh is tainted and the Provenger's planned organic human livestock is ruined. Unless there is time to correct human health, the Provenger will need to collectivize the population to better manage the product. Rick Thompson makes first contact in modern times with these extraterrestrial game wardens as he becomes their unwilling operative. To prevent wholesale destruction of civilization, Rick must decide how to collaborate while resisting. He must help the Provenger conspire against government healthcare and nutritional guidelines to avoid collectivization, admittedly an impossible mission. Rick is forced to fumble his way through the roles of assassin, turncoat, and the object of alien lust. He ultimately benefits from his collusion garnering renewed youth and unlimited wealth. Along the way, he acquires allies in the most unlikely places, and struggles for his teenage son, his new Provenger lover, and all of mankind with the only thing he has, his primal estate. (Cover art and design by the author. The print in this book was purposely fixed at a size 12 font and spaced generously for those with vision issues.)
